Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-26
From DIR J. X, Briggs.

To the Editor of the Gazette
In the Austin Daily Statesman OF 22nd
inst. is an editorial on "Who is this
Smart Man Briggs?" For me to answer
this and other puerile questions daily put
to an intelligent public by the Statesman,
would be to establish a bad precedent. If
the Statesman is not posted, do not de-
sire to be held RESPONSIBLE for its
| ignorance. The Statesman is constantly
I asking such questions. Not long siuce
the Statesman asked, Who is this man
| Dorset? The Statesman ''didn't know
him." be had not gotten down on on MS
knees TO the Statesman, nor did he be-
| long to the "cliQue'' and "sOreheads."
But the Statesman knows now who Dr..
Dorset is; the Statesman has "fouDd
out" The Statesman has ceased TO ask,
"Who is DR.. Dorsett?" and now wants
to know who his friends are
from the Every smart town Of
Dallas" Neither briggs nor the
every smart town of Dallas" has time TO
answer such boorish questions. Neither
have we time TO ask DR.. Swearengen'S
enemies who presented the long petitions
| from Galveston and other places praying
for his retention, why he did not protest.
1t must have been his enemies who did
this, since DR.. Swesrengen "was (?) snd
is to-6ay one of the Warmest friends and
supporters of Dr.. Rutherford" On this
subject the public is doubtless posted.
Tae Statesman will find some difficulty
in covering up what Dr.. SWearengen's
eaemies % did last winter to retain aim.
OF course DR.. SWearengen did not want
the disappointment since ne is not now,
nor never hiss been, 'dependent on gov
ernment patronage for a living" On,
no, What wonderful revelation! The
Statesman innocently (and oh, how beau
tifully) says: "That there has been s.
disgruntled, and to q marked
degree, an unrepresentative disgrultled
clement IN Austin for the past several
wears, opposed to both DR.. Dent0n'5 snd
Dr.. DOrsett's administrations, we Will
not deny, but that the stable and repre-
sentative business men Of Austin hGvc
taken other than local pride il hsY;Bg
these eleemosynary institutions located
in our town, or have IN any way sttempt-
ed to interfere in their management, We
most emphaGicailY and autnoritstively
deny"
Holy Moses! "CalI for mourners!"
The Statesman has discovered since DR..
Dorsett's retention that there really is S
"disgruntle and to marked degree sn
unrepresentstive disgruntled element in
Austin" Let US pray! The "stabIe and
representative business men" nave taken
tpride" in these constitutions - just
so. Some OF these "stable and represen-
tative" men we're or the asylum
board. This is what broke the
heart OF the Statesman. We refrain
from asking the Statesman With which
side was it coDuected-the "stabIe ald
representative citizens, CT Wita the
"disgruntled element?n It's punY efforts
spesk for themselves Those who reside
in its "narrow local" circles klOT % It's
"dis2runtled and unrepresentatiVe" u
teranCes! awe can prove it by facts and
!, history, and the state is now and for 81
time put upon such notice" How re-
ireshing this "notiCei" OF course, THE
GAZETTE will stop its "hOWlIng" now.
the Statesman having given 'notice''
"noW and for all time" that there really
is "disgruntled" party in Austin, and
has been "tor the past several years -
THE GAZETTE and other worthy papers
throughout the state have done theiI
work we'll. The "unrepresentatiYe dis
, gruntled element in Austin" is found at
last! The faculty OF lying and calling &
: worthy citizen e "blatherskite" is one
and the same gift. The Statesman
possesses to an infinite degree this "dis-
gruntled" faculty for both. My COM
municaJion to THE GAZETTE was not, as
the Statesman well knows, intended fOl
the "stable and representative business
men" Of Austin. 1t was sent forth tx
strike the "clique," "soreheads" anC
"disgruntIed element" How well ms
blow was aimed can be seen IL tht
S columns of the "locel" Austin
t Statesman, which seems to hay'
received the most OF it. Does
the Austin Statesman expect to remove
any more superintendent soon
The only mistake the States
man made was in not removing the
t Governor and bosrd first. 1t wouldhevt
then had walk over. I suppose it will
do this next time. The Statesman want
briggs" to "shut up" The Statesman
wanted DIR. Dorset to ''resigu," toe, bu
s Dorset no more resigned than "Briags
will "shut up" Before closing 1 desire
to say to my friends that the Statesman
is published in Austin, copy Of wAicl
can be procured after getting within e.
q hours travel of the town.
. 1t is now and mas been sll the while {
full fedged member of the "same ole
gang of soreheads."
T. r BRIGGS, M. d.